Sleepless nights for some filmmakers coming up

February 13, 2008|By Gretchen Mayer, American News Writer

Even though Curt Gienger can't start work on his short film until Friday night, it doesn't mean he isn't pondering scenarios. “I know I won't get much sleep this weekend, and I won't get much sleep this week thinking about it,” he said. The fourth Fischgaard Short Film Project officially begins at 5:30 p.m. Friday with a rules-and-drawing meeting at the Red Rooster Coffee House, 202 S. Main St. That's when teams gather for a review of the rules and to find out what their genre will be and what prop, character and line of dialogue they are required to include in their four- to seven-minute film. This is Gienger's first foray into actually making his own film, but he remembers last year's three requirements. “The prop was a plate of brownies, the character was Overa Cheever and the line of dialogue was 'I hoard things. Don't judge me,'” said Gienger. Find the rest of the story in the Out and About section inside Thursday's edition of the American News.